Anthony Jeselnik Quotes

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.

I don't feel the need to define nothin' to nobody, because I'm always changing. Why say that I'm this or that when I might not be tomorrow? I'm gonna follow my own feelings and my own heart.

I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.

So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.